Knowing which mask is best to prevent person-to-person transmission of the COVID-19 coronavirus is still an open question for most, but slow-motion video shared on YouTube early in July provides a visual basis to judge how best to keep safe amid the global pandemic. Professor Joe Hanson of the YouTube channel "It's Okay To Be Smart" released a video earlier in July, reviewing the basics of why people should wear masks — in a visual review and primer and recent studies on the effectiveness of masks to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
- PUB DATE: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Interesting Engineering

Voters in Woodland and throughout Clark County Fire & Rescue’s jurisdiction will have the chance to approve formal annexation of the city into the district with a ballot measure set for a vote in the August primary. The ballot measure would put all of Woodland city limits under the jurisdiction of Clark County Fire & Rescue (CCF&R), with which the city currently contracts for fire protection service.
- PUB DATE: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Reflector - Metered Site

For the third in the last week, Washington health officials reported over 1,000 new COVID-19 cases during a one-day period. The Washington Department of Health said there are 1,101 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total to 41,757. The state's death toll due to the virus is 1,399, according to newly released numbers.
- PUB DATE: 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS/CW+ 29 Yakima

A fire on Monday caused extensive damage to a house in Battle Ground, according to the fire marshal for Clark County Fire District 3. Crews from the fire district and Clark County Fire & Rescue were dispatched at 10:05 a.m. to the 1200 block of Northwest 19th Court for a residential fire. The first arriving crews discovered that the blaze had already spread into the attic of the home, which the fire district said “can be some of the most challenging fires to extinguish.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 7:36:17 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

More than a dozen sailors and several civilians have been hospitalized following an explosion on a Navy ship in San Diego on Sunday, officials said. A fire broke out aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard sometime around 8:30 a.m. local time, said officials with the Naval Surface Forces. The blaze escalated to a three-alarm fire, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, which assisted in battling the fire along with base and shipboard firefighting teams.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News